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Creating a Bibliography from EndNote
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Creating a Bibliography from EndNote
Controlling output
Begin a bibliography by properly formatting references in an EndNote Library. EndNote uses a “Style Manager” feature to control the specific style or output from EndNote references.
There are hundreds of bibliographic styles available. Examples in EndNote include: APA, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, and Reference Manager (another bibliographic software package similar to EndNote).
The Style Manager is not perfect, but it will reduce the amount of copyediting necessary to prepare a text for publication:
1. Open an EndNote Library (*.enl).
2. File > Output Styles > select a style displayed or choose Open Style Manager
3. Open Style Manager option opens an EndNote Styles box (Fig. 16):
- Browse list of styles and check the style desired.
- Close EndNote Styles box.
Repeat steps 1 and 2; the selected output style should appear.
Cannot find a style? Try the EndNote support and services site to locate and download a style: http://www.endnote.com/support/ensupport.asp
Fig. 16 – selecting Nature format from styles menu in EndNote’s Style Manager.
Create a bibliography in a blank Word document
- Open a new Microsoft Word document; format Word document to style guidelines.
- Open an EndNote Library (*.enl).
- Select references in the EndNote Library.
- References > Show Selected.
- References > Sort Library (decide how to order the selected references).
- File > Output Styles > [select style].
- Confirm output style in Preview window (Fig. 17).
- Edit > Select All.
- Edit > Copy Formatted.
- In the Word document, Edit > Paste (Fig. 18).
Fig. 17 – verifying output style and sort order before copying all references and pasting to a blank Word document.
Fig. 18 - bibliography created from EndNote Library placebos pasted into Word document in APA Style (5th).
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